The Vice Minister of the Interior of Bolivia assured that the persecution is incessant and that several Uruguayan drug operations have already been detected.
At the meeting between the country’s Interior Minister, Luis Alberto Heberand the vice minister of the same portfolio of bolivian, Johnny Aguilera, the latter was in charge of communicating details of the tireless search for the Uruguayan drug trafficker, Sebastian Marset, He is currently a fugitive, not knowing if he is still in the Andean country.
Aguilera assured that they still do not have the exact information on his whereabouts but that the persecution is incessant. “They are still performed in the urban area, in the rural area, in the border area. If the subject is in Bolivia, he will be found, and if he is abroad, with international cooperation we will also find him,” the Bolivian vice minister assured.
On the other hand, he remarked that several operations carried out by the criminal were detected, as well as specified details of the lines of action of the criminal gang Led by Marset. “The first is effective persecution against the Power groups that protect youthe second is the money laundering, for the purposes of which we have 43 properties seized for the moment, plus ten million dollars that have been affected and which also causes the apprehension of 21 people. The third edge will cover the legal aspect that has allowed this subject to evade criminal proceedings and to date found inert,” explained Aguilera.
The First Uruguayan Cartel does not exist
In this sense, the official assured that the First Uruguayan Cartel (PCU) it does not exist and that it was an invention of Marset since they did not materially find the evidence to buy its existence. That’s why they should keep looking. international links with Marset.
Regarding the national level, Aguilera assured that the people who accompany Marset have violated national regulations. The vice minister referred to Diego Marset who is linked to drug trafficking, as well as crimes related to public faith with fraudulent identities. He has done the same the family of the drug trafficker, who is currently under investigation.
On the other hand, in the last hours several people were sent to prison, being a 30-year-old man named Yocimar Cartagena Rodriguez, alias “El Peruano” the last of them, who worked as Marset’s Bodyguard. The police believe that this person could be linked to a case of kidnapping in Santa Cruz and for that reason he obtained preventive detention for 30 days while the investigation progresses.
How did they find Marset?
Aguilera assured that it began with a notice from the Interpol in March of the year 2022 when they detected that his whereabouts were in Bolivia. In this sense, the vice minister explained that Marset had requested a Bolivian document at the first opportunity – before the Interpol notice – which was denied since it was being requested internally.
After the notice of the international entity, searches were carried out in the databases that did not find the criminal. “Therein lies the significance of use of various identities. It is not only a modality to evade the action of Justice, but also to get involved in new types of crimes, such as money laundering or leading criminal organizations,” added Aguilera.
It was less than two months ago, the June 16 this yearduring a meeting with the mercosur, when data was received that Marset was possibly in Bolivia. From there, he began the search and reconstruction of the whereabouts and criminal activities of the Uruguayan drug trafficker.
Source: Ambito
